CISL RDA: ds117.0 GRIB Parameter Table

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ds117.0 GRIB Parameter Table

The following 74 parameters from ECMWF Parameter Code Table 128 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units	Comments
27	CVL	Low vegetation cover
28	CVH	High vegetation cover
29	TVL	Type of low vegetation
30	TVH	Type of high vegetation
31	CI	Sea-ice cover
32	ASN	Snow albedo
33	RSN	Snow density	kg m^-3
34	SSTK	Sea surface temperature	K
35	ISTL1	Ice surface temperature layer 1	K
36	ISTL2	Ice surface temperature layer 2	K
37	ISTL3	Ice surface temperature layer 3	K
38	ISTL4	Ice surface temperature layer 4	K
39	SWVL1	Volumetric soil water layer 1	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
40	SWVL2	Volumetric soil water layer 2	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
41	SWVL3	Volumetric soil water layer 3	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
42	SWVL4	Volumetric soil water layer 4	m³ m^-3	ECMWF has a description of the soil water units on their web site
44	ES	Snow evaporation	m	Accumulated field
45	SMLT	Snowmelt	m	Accumulated field
129	Z	Geopotential	m² s^-2	At the surface - orography
136	TCW	Total column water	kg m^-2	Liquid + ice + vapour
137	TCWV	Total column water vapour	kg m^-2
139	STL1	Soil temperature level 1	K	Soil temperature (ST) before 1993-08-04
141	SD	Snow depth	m
142	LSP	Stratiform precipitation	m	Accumulated field
143	CP	Convective precipitation	m	Accumulated field
144	SF	Snowfall (convective + stratiform)	m	Accumulated field
146	SSHF	Surface sensible heat flux	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
147	SLHF	Surface latent heat flux	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
148	CHNK	Charnock		Surface stress (SS) before 1998-05-19
151	MSL	Mean sea-level pressure	Pa
152	LNSP	Logarithm of surface pressure
159	BLH	Boundary layer height	m
160	SDOR	Standard deviation of orography
161	ISOR	Anisotropy of sub-gridscale orography
162	ANOR	Angle of sub-gridscale orography	rad
163	SLOR	Slope of sub-gridscale orography
164	TCC	Total cloud cover
165	10U	10 metre U wind component	m s^-1
166	10V	10 metre V wind component	m s^-1
167	2T	2 metre temperature	K
168	2D	2 metre dewpoint temperature	K
169	SSRD	Surface solar radiation downwards	W m^-2 s
170	STL2	Soil temperature level 2	K	Deep soil temperature (DST) before 1993-08-04
172	LSM	Land/sea mask
173	SR	Surface roughness	m
174	AL	Albedo
175	STRD	Surface thermal radiation downwards	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
176	SSR	Surface solar radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
177	STR	Surface thermal radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
178	TSR	Top solar radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
179	TTR	Top thermal radiation	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
180	EWSS	East/West surface stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
181	NSSS	North/South surface stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
182	E	Evaporation	m	Accumulated field
183	STL3	Soil temperature level 3	K	Climatological deep soil temperature (CDST) before 1993-08-04
186	LCC	Low cloud cover
187	MCC	Medium cloud cover
188	HCC	High cloud cover
195	LGWS	Latitudinal component of gravity wave stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
196	MGWS	Meridional component of gravity wave stress	N m^-2 s	Accumulated field
198	SRC	Skin reservoir content	m
205	RO	Runoff	m	Accumulated field
206	TCO3	Total column ozone	kg m^-2	Before 2001-06-12, unit was Dobson. 1 Dobson = 2.1415E-5 kg m^-2
208	TSRC	Top net solar radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
209	TTRC	Top net thermal radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
210	SSRC	Surface net solar radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
211	STRC	Surface net thermal radiation, clear sky	W m^-2 s	Accumulated field
229	IEWS	Instantaneous X surface stress	N m^-2
230	INSS	Instantaneous Y surface stress	N m^-2
232	IE	Instantaneous moisture flux	kg m^-2 s	Evaporation
234	LSRH	Logarithm of surface roughness length for heat
235	SKT	Skin temperature	K
236	STL4	Soil temperature level 4	K
238	TSN	Temperature of snow layer	K

The following 35 parameters from ECMWF Parameter Code Table 162 are included in this dataset:

Parameter Code	Short Name	Description	Units
51	SZ	Surface geopotential	m² s^-2
52	SP	Surface pressure	Pa
53	VIMA	Vertical integral of mass of atmosphere	kg m^-2
54	VIT	Vertical integral of temperature	K kg m^-2
55	VITCWV	Vertical integral of total column water vapour	kg m^-2
56	VITCLCW	Vertical integral of total column liquid cloud water	kg m^-2
57	VITCFCW	Vertical integral of total column frozen cloud water	kg m^-2
58	VITCO3	Vertical integral of total column ozone	kg m^-2
59	VIKE	Vertical integral of kinetic energy	J m^-2
60	VITE	Vertical integral of thermal energy	J m^-2
61	VIDSE	Vertical integral of dry static energy	J m^-2
62	VIMSE	Vertical integral of moist static energy	J m^-2
63	VITOTE	Vertical integral of total energy	J m^-2
64	VIEC	Vertical integral of energy conversion	W m^-2
65	VIEMF	Vertical integral of eastward mass flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
66	VINMF	Vertical integral of northward mass flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
67	VIEKEF	Vertical integral of eastward kinetic energy flux	W m^-2
68	VINKEF	Vertical integral of northward kinetic energy flux	W m^-2
69	VIEHF	Vertical integral of eastward heat flux	W m^-2
70	VINHF	Vertical integral of northward heat flux	W m^-2
71	VIEWVF	Vertical integral of eastward water vapour flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
72	VINWVF	Vertical integral of northward water vapour flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
73	VIEGF	Vertical integral of eastward geopotential flux	W m^-2
74	VINGF	Vertical integral of northward geopotential flux	W m^-2
75	VIETEF	Vertical integral of eastward total energy flux	W m^-2
76	VINTEF	Vertical integral of northward total energy flux	W m^-2
77	VIEO3F	Vertical integral of eastward ozone flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
78	VINO3F	Vertical integral of northward ozone flux	kg m^-1 s^-1
81	VIDMF	Vertical integral of divergence of mass flux	kg m^-2 s^-1
82	VIDKEF	Vertical integral of divergence of kinetic energy flux	W m^-2
83	VIDTEF	Vertical integral of divergence of thermal energy flux	W m^-2
84	VIDMOF	Vertical integral of divergence of moisture flux	kg m^-2 s^-1
85	VIDGF	Vertical integral of divergence of geopotential flux	W m^-2
86	VIDTOTEF	Vertical integral of divergence of total energy flux	W m^-2
87	VIDO3F	Vertical integral of divergence of ozone flux	kg m^-2 s^-1